I tried to get into Elite: Dangerous back when I first picked up my headset, and ended up returning the game when I realized it supports the visual part of the headset, but still requires a gamepad / keyboard. I don’t know enough about the game to guess whether it would even translate to tracked controllers; has this…

I’d be thrilled just to play through Galaxy again with nothing more than a 1080p option. That game looks fine with such a cheap upscale (see: Dolphin), and I’d really love just the ability to play it on my Switch.

As much as backwards compatability is nice in theory, in practice I think the majority of people who care about it just keep the old console. Works fine! Why replace it? There’s bound to be some people that see the value in being able to trade up, but I think much more of the market works the way you describe: once…

I have a similar effect with green LEDs in particular, though it’s not quite pronounced enough to be distracting unless I’m looking for it. When I finally got prescription glasses and learned that I have a slight astigmatism, I also learned that the effect vanishes when I’m wearing my lenses. (It is replaced by…

Yeah, but... not the code that would run the ads initially, and potentially submit tracking data to some company. I know I’m splitting hairs, but that’s more of a personal hangup. Same reason I pass on most mobile games. If the application includes ads, at all, it just doesn’t get installed.

Nah, not installing something with touch screen buttons right next to advertisements that are way too easy to accidentally click, which will certainly close the app. That’s an even dumber way than usual to die. I applaud the effort, but it needs a paid version.

I thought I’d missed an episode; isn’t this latest one titled “Fragments” rather than “Shattered?”

I think this also calls something else into question: now that Steven knows he has essentially the power of resurrection from the dead, for gems and organics (see: Lars)... what does he do with those who died in the war? Is he going to feel some obligation to try to help everybody? Should he? That gets into strange…

For a while, doing that search would stubbornly focus the modern “Settings” app instead, like they were trying to intentionally redirect users to the new thing. Right around the same time they removed the control panel from the Windows+X menu. Looks like they’ve backtracked on some of those changes (thankfully) but…

HONESTLY this. I know that like 98% of the user base won’t see most of the old menus, but for anyone working with hardware or design software, trying to even *get* to the old control panel (because the new UI doesn’t have all the options) and then dealing with the resulting cruft is a minor nightmare. If the new UI…

The way Sugar describes Garnet’s powers working is just the way I imagined, once the show finally got around to introducing Ruby and Sapphire’s characters and giving them some screen time. It’s a beautiful bit of writing, and it gives Garnet such a unique world view and set of priorities. It’s almost like she gets to…

It’s possible to do wireless with the Vive Pro but it’s fairly expensive, and requires a powerful gaming rig. The wireless antenna is an Intel WiMax, and it absolutely needs a beefy *current* gen CPU*. I can sorta run it on my Ivy Bridge i7, but it’s glitchy and unpleasant. I can’t really recommend it unless you’ve…

Yeah I figured that out after a while. Mostly I was commenting on the state of gaming in general. that there could even be confusion... having grown up in the 90s with SM64 as the pinnacle of gaming during my childhood, it’s been fun to watch the graphics power progress. Now it seems like we’re more limited by art…

Weird. Why is that header image a photo, instead of a screenshot?

On a completely unrelated note, the crop job on the pair of header images suggests an *extremely* presice nutshot.

Well, the main trouble is coming up with an agreed upon definition of “cheating” or “exploiting”, both of which are contested terms. There’s a whole category of runs for people who believe glitches should be off limits. They’re often just called “glitchless” runs, or “no major skips,” though it depends on the game and…

Honestly a coffee shop geared towards gamers, instead of work from “home” office folks, is somewhere I might actually hang out. I’m not sure GameStop is the brand I trust for this, but the idea has some merit at least.

My loose understanding is that it is quite common to sculpt the 3D shape of what you’re modeling in pretty high detail, then bake that down to textures to create an efficient version for the game. The actual 3D geometry detail is lost during this process, but the higher detail surface informs the normal and…

Oh man, enjoy the nostalgia bomb! Some of my other consoles I might just replace if they ever get busted, but my original Gameboy is my treasure. I’ll repair it by hand if I have to.

I agree with you 100%. Every voice matters, I’m just adding mine to the crowd here. This scene is uncomfortable for a lot of reasons.